Ship models
Port history.
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The Port of Santos Museum is part of the port's cultural complex, opened to the public on 1 September 1989, telling through highly significant historic objects the story of the Port of Santos, the largest in Latin America and the southern hemisphere, through which Brazilian coffee went out to the world. The museum occupies a building designed by the engineer Guilherme Benjamin Weinschenck in 1902, the official residence of the directors of the «Companhia Docas de Santos» until the 1950s, then a company office. The museum's story began when the engineer Antônio Carlos da Mata Barreto saved the defunct company's documents, which would otherwise have been burned, keeping them as a historic archive for the future. The museum shows tools, ship models, maps, photographs and documents on the building and growth of the port. Entry is free, it draws record crowds in the holidays, and the port sometimes runs free boat tours of the channel, so ask about them and check times.
Port history.
Directors' home.
By boat.
Avenida Conselheiro Rodrigues Alves, Macuco, Santos
Yes, entry is free, and the port sometimes runs boat tours of the channel.